Hide Listing Contact Info

Ok so you have done all the hard work and populated your new vantage website.

The question now is. How do I get these businesses to claim their listing?

The answer is this.

Hide Listing Contact Info.

Without this plugin there really is no incentive to claim the listing. After all, the site is live and there is a listing fully visible with all the business details on there for free. So why bother paying?

That is what I would say and think, so I doubt I would be on my own thinking that way.

So to combat this, install Hide Contact Listing Info!

With this valuable plugin all the visible contact and additional info fields will become blurred so the important contact details cannot now be viewed. The business owner is now no longer benefiting from free advertising. Therefore if they want to gain valuable business it is in their interests to Claim the Listing to unlock all the contact information.

How does it work?.

The plugin creates a ‘blur’ effect on the ad’s contact information and additional area fields.

1. Extract folder and files from the zipped archive: hide-listing-contact-info.zip
2. Upload the folder to your website directory, placing it in the plugins folder: wp-content/plugins
3. Activate the plugin in the ‘Installed Plugins’ section of the administration dashboard

Comments (10)

This is very useful, AJ – really a great way to encourage folks to claim a listing. Would it be possible to assign this on a listing by listing basis in the future? I’d buy this for one of our communities – but I’d want to be able to edit this on a listing by listing forward going basis so that all there already – aren’t affected.

Nicely done – good to see some well thought out plugins coming to Vantage 4!

The site I wanted to test this on is a recent conversion to Vantage (and 4.0) from another directory framework – we have about 350 listings – but “claim” hasn’t been part of the process flow for any of our users, so all old listings are un-claimed. (even the premium members – of which, about 75 are – who pay externally, as you mention above – through a different payment sequence that “gets them” a premium listing on the site as well)

So my question is – which you may have answered already above – we could manually set these folks as “claimed” within the listing itself – to avoid their info from being blurred – so that retroactive members are protected (unaffected)?

Is there a way to associate the same basic effect on “non premium” listings as well – rather than claimed/unclaimed? (I haven’t really used the claim function on Vantage as a selling point – but this seems to make a persuasive argument to start 🙂